The Pinnacle of Everquest (In your opinion)

[Malik_Gynax]

Excluding Ikkinz, Gates of Discord has my favorite raids. Great encounters in that expansion at the high end.

So for me it's Gates of Discord > Velious > Planes of Power.

[Faiding]

The absolute only thing worth doing in GoD was obtaining BBoB's from Tacvi for your tanks.

It was tuned for 70+ and made irrelevant by the time people were 70 with OoW

[Bboboo]

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[Calibretto]

I hated the introduction of armor dyes. I love being able to tell just how bad ass someone is by looking at their visables / weapons.

[myriverse]

Through Kunark was great.

Only three things I liked about Velious: Velk's, ToFS, and Ring War. I hate whiteness and snow and dragons and giants. Blech.

Unashamedly, Luclin was tops for me. Except for the unfinished stuff, which I really couldn't have cared less about, the moon was awesome. And Vah Shir are the best looking race to ever be in EQ.

PoP had absolutely nothing to interest me.

Ykesha had lots to like. Frogs-- they're delicious. It's like watching the Food Network. Thumbs up. Enhancements and dyes and stuff. Thumbs up. Map was cool. Thumbs up. Though sucks for Trolls. Thumbs down.

LDoN had nothing for me.

GoD had Berserker class, which I enjoyed, but the rest was meh.

And that's when I gave up Norrath for the City of Heroes.

[Cecily]

I loved hot pink ogres lol. I vote for Luclin, PoP, LDoN era as my favorites. LDoN was just great for finding a random party and the expansion was all dungeon roaming. I HATE camping stuff.

[mokfarg]

I am surprised so far so many have chosen PoP as the time the game as a whole it was at its best. The reason it surprises me is I guess first the purpose of this server and secondly how much of EQ at that point in time to me felt like a big hodgepodge of multiple games.

I personally felt Everquest without expansions was the pinnacle of Everquest. In my opinion the game felt cohesive and complete. Also to me it felt more about a gathering of friends, role play, and I hate this term that has recently been adopted but here I go "casual". The gear in the original was nice but didn't make you as a character.

Would be nice if there was a wealthy individual that loved Everquest and donated to the project 1999 folks to have a server for every expansion in Everquest. Instead of progression on one server after you had enough of a certain time in the game, you would be able to progress to another server with the next expansion. Certain goals in the previous server would have to be met to "unlock" the next one. Folks who loved a particular time in game, wouldn't have to go anywhere. I guess that could be done with multiple virtual servers, dockers or whatever. What a dream!

[Toodles]

Originally Posted by mokfarg [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I am surprised so far so many have chosen PoP as the time the game as a whole it was at its best.

That's because the majority of them don't know much before that (with exception Luclin and the tail end of Velious).

Despite all their posturing and quick Allakhazam searches, they in fact are not classic players.

[Daldaen]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I loved hot pink ogres lol. I vote for Luclin, PoP, LDoN era as my favorites. LDoN was just great for finding a random party and the expansion was all dungeon roaming. I HATE camping stuff.

This. LDoN was great to have a good-old classic dungeon crawl where you generally don't know where you are going or the camps/named etc. Felt more explorish, until you learned each of the 5 maps per 5 areas.

I really don't get the hate on instancing, see every raid dispute and camp dispute ever. People on the internet don't play nice.

[webrunner5]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This. LDoN was great to have a good-old classic dungeon crawl where you generally don't know where you are going or the camps/named etc. Felt more explorish, until you learned each of the 5 maps per 5 areas.

Yeah was pretty neat how you got Random Events per say. Made it a lot more interesting, even though like you say, there where 5 of them, it still did mix it up where it was not as boring. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]